Of course college will teach you great things but to add, many times, after college comes grad school and so forth.. which might seem like a never ending journey (rat race journey) that may come in the way of your investing goals.

There is no need to be in such a hurry to join the "rat race". 

It's not that it provided top notch investing advice, it just allowed your knowledge glass to expand so that you could fit more content in.His next book Casflow Quadrant had more detailed information that expands the knowledge glass once again and gives enough information to decide whether you wanted to be Employee, Self Employed, Business Owner or Investor.Then his game Cashflow allows you to practice digging yourself out of the rat race using the broad concepts from the books.They were never meant to provide THE blueprint for success.  

Do I give a rats *** if he has already vacated or will tomorrow or come back on weekends- no.

I know you are an anti rat-race kind of guy (as am I) are you going to stay put or are you trying to grow create even more passive income etc? 

I bought Kids Cash Flow and play the game with my children to teach they to win the game of money and get out of the rat race.

Renting a room for each person in a 8-br house seems like a rat cage though, doesn't it?

I am almost finished with a great book, "The Self Directed IRA Handbook" by Mat Sorensen, who is an attorney, and has been a great resource thus far for educating me on the dos and don'ts of SD IRAs.

She had multiple dogs, a cat and pet rats that used the apartment floor to go to the bathroom.  

Will they rat you out the second they suspect anything unusual?